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Carved rubber stamp

For a long time, I always misheard the lyrics in the song ‘Torn Green Velvet Eyes’ by The Magnetic Fields as ‘Tom Green Velvet Eyes’… told myself that one day I’d draw something inspired by this mishearing of things and well, here you go!

We are dependants, all of us.

Sharks deep in thought as always...

This pose spoke to me. I wanted to practice stylization with color and brush strokes.

Another new whale song...

All the whales!

Inspired by the Fremen from Dune. Blizzard white and blue eyes on a face thats been in the grinding desert many years. Painted with Rebelle and Flame Painter

Mark E Smith... a writer and musician who never fails to motivate me, creatively speaking.

Ink, charcoal and carbon pencil on paper

Ink, charcoal and carbon pencil on paper

Whale watching, yet again!

Ink, charcoal and carbon pencil on paper

A foreshadowing?

Ink, charcoal and carbon pencil on paper

Acrylic on wood

Meanwhile, in a shark infested alternate reality...

Zahra Sedighi-Hamedani sits in prison in Iran, sentenced to death for being a lesbian. Digitally painted with pencil brushes and textured overlays to produce a watercolor-type image. Shading tones and background are meant to represent the Kurdish flag.

My average 8-9 hour slumber in a nutshell! It's a miracle I function, quite honestly.

It gets hot and muggy in the deep forest during summertime.

A spot of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s wisdom always gets me by... :-)

Just some warm up doodles. Bic pen in my sketchbook!

As it should be!